to go past
16
1.0
- phrasal verb
- /ɡoʊ pæst/
:
pasar
- Every classroom I've gone past so far has got no kids in it.
- just went past
- then went past
- went past the house
And so it's like you went past the point of redemption for me.
- And so it's like you went past the point of redemption for me.
- And then he says, I think we've gone past that possibility.
- We gave them the fingers as we went past them, but then they jumped.
- But it never ends, you know, once you go past your undergrad, it keeps going.
- I I love people that don't don't they they go past the line Robert Schimmel.
- There was no good ideas about how to go past the standard model of particle physics.
- They're like, so the bear won't go past this wire and you're like, what?
- And it's one that I, I, I went past that part of the book really quick.
- Go home, wave at my children as I go past the hallway by Hello children.
- I'm thinking like when you go past Memorial Field and that's Astoria Blvd.
- And luckily I didn't have to go past that step.
- A group of loud mall teams came through and go past us.
- No, it's somewhere but just just let it go past the BIOS.
Examples
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I go right past there, I could give you a lift.
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As we drove along the road, we had to go past several parked cars.
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-We're not going to get past these guys.
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We went past the store.
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The guys with the dark suits came out and went past them without a look.
Fiction book (1995) -
Some minutes later, the two women emerged from the house and went past the boy without a word.
Fiction book (1992) -
They're talking while they walk, going past people in the town.
Fiction book (1996) -
The old man and the boy went past the girl and walked in the snow to the nearby shanty.
Fiction book (1992) -
I remember feeling the tanks and half-tracks in the ground as they went past.
Fiction book (1991) -
- Just don't let him go past the lollipop lady.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To move past something or someone
165
1.2
Go past someone or something without stopping
133
1.0
To move past someone or something
100
3.3
Move across something like a river or mountain
69
1.0
To go past something on foot without stopping
29
4.3
To go past a problem and start something better
16
2.2
To move past something while in the air
14
3.2
Move past someone to go in front
13
1.3
To move quickly past someone or let a chance go by without acting
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to move beyond or pass by' is directly and transparently derivable from combining 'go' (to move) with 'past' (indicating motion by or beyond something). This follows a standard motion verb + preposition/particle pattern that is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Go past gives a clear picture of something moving by a person or place, like a train that goes past a window. So go past means 'to move beyond' or 'to pass by'.